Tiny little cans -like cat food cans -with a cream colored paper wrapper around them. Little red devil on the label. Stunk like cheap cat food when you opened them up. They also made a chicken spread.

yes his name was mason reese-he was cool!so was rodney allen rippey-remember him? they still have the ham and the chicken spread.sometimes i add a can of the ham spread to a container of cream cheese and add almonds and maybe minced onion and form into a cheese ball yumm!

Retro, Underwood Develed Ham, the name is an oxymoronic (note the oxy), is a heavenly snack. I still love it with mayo on wheat.

The only good thing about it was the little red devil on the can. Full of pork and chicken by-products. The taste was revolting, and it did smell like cheap cat food -- although cats would refuse to eat it.

Oh yeah! Mason Reese for Underwood Deviled Ham: "It tastes just like a borgaschmord!"

I remember pestering my mom to buy this product (based on the 'borgaschmord' commercials. She kept saying she wasn't going to... but finally one day I came home for lunch and there were these never-before-seen sandwiches. One bite and my siblings and I spit it out. We asked her why she was feeding us the cat's food and she told us it was the deviled ham we were pestering her for. We were convinced she was trying to pass off cat food at the product, so she went to the garbage can to dig out the tin. To everyone's horror the tin had no label (as this product was wrapped in paper-not a glued on label.) For years we were convinced that crazy woman fed us cat food.

Wow I am surprised there are so many who have "cat food" memories of this stuff! Salty and delish, I still love it. My mom used to make double-decker samwiches on white bread with: one layer of Deviled Ham, one layer of American cheese and egg salad. YUM!

This was a special treat in my house. My mom used to mix it with cream cheese for card club. We loved it. I still do!

I'm 41 and I still eat it once in awhile. I love it, always have.

I'm 41 also and I will OCCASIONALLY eat this stuff, although it smells awful and has a layer of fat on the top when you open the can. I'm a health fanatic and I don't eat sugar, so I have to splurge once in a while. When I really feel crazy I eat a can of that corned beef hash (Mary Kitchen's). Then I feel sick for the next twelve hours.

this stuff is pretty nasty, IMO. I mean, c'mon...once you've had a real ham salad (nice Southern specialty) there's no reason to eat this glorified cat food. We had a couple of cans in the cupboard that sat there forever. In a family of nine boys, that's saying something.

Wow, kinda weird, but I too am 41 and I still occasionally get a craving for Develed Ham sandwiches, on soft wheat bread cut into little triangles just like when my mom used to send them in my lunch!

Why can't anyone put their hands on this commercial???

Am I strange that I loved it then and I love it now? I usually have a can or two in my pantry. My dad introduced it to me as a kid. He eats it with Kraft Miracle Whip on a cracker. I use Kraft Mayo, just as yummy!

I liked the chicken spread; I never tried the deviled ham.

I remember the other, older commercial. Not Mason Reese. Had a kid running through woods. gets home. He finds a sandwhich sitting waiting for him on the kitchen table. Underwood Deviled Ham. I LOVED the stuff then. Probably because it was so fatty. I literally have a can of the stuff open in front of me right now. You know, it DOES kind of smell and look like cat food... Got it from Dollar general for $1.50. The can of DAK ham water added was only $2.75. Could have bought THAT, ground it up with some pickle and mayo, and would have been better. Oh well, another childhood dream shot to heck. Like Isaly's Chipped Chopped ham, not as good as I remember...